Success and failure of primary medical, nonoperative management in breast cancer

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2166-2172

  Schmid, Seraina Margaretha ^a   Modlasiak, Aleksandra Anna ^a   Myrick, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Kilic, Nerbil ^a   Viehl, Carsten Thomas ^b   Schötzau, Andreas ^c   Güth, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UHB   (Switzerland)

^c Schötzau and Simmen Institute for Biomathematics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PREDICTION; REOPERATION; SKIN METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051546183     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-011-1592-8     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. M Fennessy T Bates K MacRae, et al. 2004 Late follow-up of a randomized trial of surgery plus tamoxifen versus tamoxifen alone in women aged over 70 years with operable breast cancer Br J Surg. 91 699 704 15164437 10.1002/bjs.4603 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2cXlsFOis7k%3D (Pubitemid 38746135)
2. IS Fentiman MR Christiaens R Paridaens, et al. 2003 Treatment of operable breast cancer in the elderly: a randomised clinical trial EORTC 10851 comparing tamoxifen alone with modified radical mastectomy Eur J Cancer. 39 309 316 12565982 10.1016/S0959-8049(02)00673-1 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXotlCqsw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 36140047)
3. Hind D, Wyld L, Beverley CB, Reed MW. Surgery versus primary endocrine therapy for operable primary breast cancer in elderly women (70 years plus). Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;CD004272.
4. F Kenny J Robertson I Ellis, et al. 1998 Long-term follow-up of elderly patients randomized to primary tamoxifen or wedge mastectomy as initial therapy for operable breast cancer Breast. 7 335 339 10.1016/S0960-9776(98)90077-7 (Pubitemid 29060401)
5. G Mustacchi R Ceccherini S Milani, et al. 2003 Tamoxifen alone versus adjuvant tamoxifen for operable breast cancer of the elderly: long-term results of the phase III randomized controlled multicenter GRETA trial Ann Oncol. 14 414 420 12598347 10.1093/annonc/mdg117 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3s%2Fos1GmtA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 36367419)
6. GK Atkin MA Scott JE Wiggins MJ Callam 2007 The incidence, indications and outcome for the non-operative management of breast cancer J Surg Oncol. 96 137 143 17443721 10.1002/jso.20789 (Pubitemid 47264817)
7. HM Verkooijen GM Fioretta E Rapiti, et al. 2005 Patients' refusal of surgery strongly impairs breast cancer survival Ann Surg. 242 276 280 16041219 10.1097/01.sla.0000171305.31703.84 (Pubitemid 41033445)
8. GV Babiera R Rao L Feng, et al. 2006 Effect of primary tumor extirpation in breast cancer patients who present with stage IV disease and an intact primary tumor Ann Surg Oncol. 13 776 782 16614878 10.1245/ASO.2006.03.033 (Pubitemid 43727360)
9. AC Bafford HJ Burstein CR Barkley, et al. 2009 Breast surgery in stage IV breast cancer: impact of staging and patient selection on overall survival Breast Cancer Res Treat. 115 7 12 18581232 10.1007/s10549-008-0101-7
10. DK Blanchard PB Shetty SG Hilsenbeck RM Elledge 2008 Association of surgery with improved survival in stage IV breast cancer patients Ann Surg. 247 732 738 18438108 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181656d32 (Pubitemid 351591506)
11. RC Fields DB Jeffe K Trinkaus, et al. 2007 Surgical resection of the primary tumor is associated with increased long-term survival in patients with stage IV breast cancer after controlling for site of metastasis Ann Surg Oncol. 14 3345 3351 17687611 10.1245/s10434-007-9527-0 (Pubitemid 350160108)
12. J Gnerlich DB Jeffe AD Deshpande, et al. 2007 Surgical removal of the primary tumor increases overall survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer: analysis of the 1988-2003 SEER data Ann Surg Oncol. 14 2187 2194 17522944 10.1245/s10434-007-9438-0 (Pubitemid 47174926)
13. Khan SA, Stewart AK, Morrow M. Does aggressive local therapy improve survival in metastatic breast cancer? Surgery. 2002;132:620-6; discussion 626-7.
14. E Rapiti HM Verkooijen G Vlastos, et al. 2006 Complete excision of primary breast tumor improves survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis J Clin Oncol. 24 2743 2749 16702580 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.2226 (Pubitemid 46630571)
15. Edge S, Byrd D, Compton C, et al. AJCC cancer staging manual. New York: Springer; 2009.
16. Sobin L, Gospodarowicz M, Wittekind C (2009) UICC TNM classification of malignant tumors Oxford. Wiley-Blackwell.
17. U Guth D Jane Huang W Holzgreve, et al. 2007 T4 breast cancer under closer inspection: a case for revision of the TNM classification Breast. 16 625 636 17604172 10.1016/j.breast.2007.05.006 (Pubitemid 350167117)
18. Holmes C, Muss H. Breast cancer in older women. In: Singletary S, Robb G, Hortobagyi G (editors). Advanced therapy of breast cancer, 2nd ed. Hamilton: Decker 2004:727-42.
19. VS Rao V Garimella M Hwang PJ Drew 2007 Management of early breast cancer in the elderly Int J Cancer. 120 1155 1160 17236197 10.1002/ijc.22431 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXhvVOjtbg%3D
20. KE Steinhauser NA Christakis EC Clipp, et al. 2000 Factors considered important at the end of life by patients, family, physicians, and other care providers JAMA. 284 2476 2482 11074777 10.1001/jama.284.19.2476 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M%2FktFyksg%3D%3D
21. SB Yellen DF Cella WT Leslie 1994 Age and clinical decision making in oncology patients J Natl Cancer Inst. 86 1766 1770 7966414 10.1093/jnci/86.23. 1766 1:STN:280:DyaK2M%2FlsFynsA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 24373451)
22. U Guth DJ Huang S Dirnhofer, et al. 2009 Distant metastatic breast cancer as an incurable disease: a tenet with a need for revision Cancer J. 15 81 86 19197181 10.1097/PPO.0b013e31818d8509